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Mike Johnson: “He [Chuck Schumer] wants to reinstate free health care for…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

Speaker Johnson Joins Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union

Published September 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:20

It's wrong. He also wants to, by the way, what Chuck Schumer is demanding in exchange for all those good things I just listed. He [Chuck Schumer] wants to reinstate free health care for illegal aliens paid by American taxpayers. We are not doing that. We can't do that. That's just one of the crazy things he's requested. Well, I think he would take issue with that. (00:20–02:57)

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Asserts that Chuck Schumer wants to reinstate taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants.

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